Global project to provide one million chemistry kits to two million students in the developing world launched

1,000,000 Impacting 200,000,000

Graphene: New Risk to the Respiratory System
Study highlights importance of graphene nanoplatelet shape as driver for toxicity

Inkjet Printing of Single-Crystal Films
Drop-on-demand, non-vacuum and room-temperature printing process of patterned single-crystal semiconductor films

Daniel Seidel Awarded
Daniel Seidel, Rutgers University, awarded the Carl Duisberg Memorial Award for his work on organocatalysis and C–H bond activation

Editor-in-Chief of ChemViews Awarded
Vera Köster, Wiley-VCH, is awarded for the planning, development, and running of the ChemistryViews website

New Insomnia Treatment
Orexin receptor antagonist developed by Merck and currently in phase II trials promising for treating insomnia

New Malaria Lead Compound Identified
A new lead for antimalarial drugs has been developed through structure-activity studies on the GlaxoSmithkline database

Angewandte Chemie 10/2012: Click! Goes the Sulfur
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Sensitive Detector for Nerve Agents
A terpyridine could be a novel chemodosimeter compound for exposure to nerve agents, according to researchers in India

New Route to Benzothiazoles
Copper-catalyzed three-component reaction route to benzothiazoles avoids sulfur poisioning of catalyst